Potential Essential Questions: What is discrimination? What are different ways people can experience or perpetuate discrimination? How do we recognize discrimination?
Examples include harsher treatment of minority students compared to their non-minority counterparts on punishments like: Suspension. Unfair grading policies. The allowance of discriminatory behavior perpetrated by other students in the classroom.
Discrimination is when a student is treated worse or bullied because of the student's immigration status, disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation.
Discrimination is the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age, or sexual orientation.
Discrimination is the unequal treatment of different categories of people when this treatment cannot be justified on the basis of objective and reasonable criteria. Children are more vulnerable to discrimination than adults as they are often disadvantaged in terms of social power.
As a class, discuss the following: Who is being treated unfairly in this situation? These people are being discriminated against. If you were the one being discriminated against, what would you do? What would you do if you saw a classmate being discriminated against?
Direct evidence often involves a statement from a decision-maker that expresses a discriminatory motive. Direct evidence can also include express or admitted classifications, in which a recipient explicitly distributes benefits or burdens based on race, color, or national origin.